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Descriptive Summary
Winegarten, Ruthe.Black Texas Women Archive
1860-1865, 1897-19948 ft., 9 in.Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin This collection brings
together a wide variety of materials about the history of Black women in Texas
for the purpose of writing Black Texas Women: 150 Years
of Trial and Triumph. by Ruthe Winegarten.English.
Scope and Contents

Research materials, including books,
pamphlets, photographs, oral interviews and files assembled by Ruthe Winegarten
for the purpose of writing her book Black Texas Women:
150 Years of Trial and Triumph..

Biographical Note

Ruthe Winegarten, a historian and
writer, teacher and lecturer, was born and raised in Texas. She received a
Masters of Science in social work from The University of Texas at Arlington in
1970. From 1975-1978, she served as a visiting instructor and community
coordinator at The University of Texas at Dallas where she worked toward a
doctorate in the history of ideas. Through the Texas Foundation for Women’s
Resources, she began working on the Texas Women’s History Project in 1978. She
edited Texas Women’s History Project:
Bibliography, Winegarten’s first book, and served as research director
and curator of the Foundation’s traveling exhibit “Texas Women: A Celebration
of History” which appeared throughout Texas in 1981 and 1982.

Winegarten
wrote and co-wrote 18 books focusing on the history of women,
African-Americans, Latinos, and Jews in Texas. In 1983, Winegarten published
I Am Annie Mae, the story of black entrepreneur
Annie Mae Hunt. Winegarten crafted the book into a musical which toured
nationally. Other works by Winegarten include the following:
Black Texas Women: A Sourcebook;
Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators,
1923-1999; and her last work, Las Tejanas: 300
Years of History.

Throughout her life, Winegarten participated in
various community organizations including the League of Women Voters and B’nai
B’rith of which she was Southwest Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation
League.

In June 2004, Ruthe Winegarten died in Austin at the age of
74.

Access Restrictions

Unrestricted access.

Use Restrictions

Unrestricted use.

Cite as

Black Texas Women Archive, 1860-1865, 1897-1994, Center for American
History, The University of Texas at Austin.

Related Material

Additional materials on Black Texas women
and other documents related to this collection are included in the
Ruthe Winegarten Papers, 1912-2004, also at the
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.

See also the
Ruthe Winegarten Family Papers, 1963-2001, also at
the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.